Congratulations! Welcome to the world of wacky composters. LOL If you do it right you'll be nagging yer neighbors for their compost materials. lolol I just have a pile of compost. Looking to manufacture some sort of tumbler, soon. It will be plastic. I look forward to the responses. Given the wind storm over us right now, I'm betting tying it down somehow is a good idea.

Don't forget to consider worm composting. Just don't forget it's there like I recently did.

Haha, thanks! I already have the wacky composter thing going on. I think it's catching on with FH, too, because he keeps asking me whether his trash can go in the composter or not. I even checked out "The Complete Compost Gardening Guide" from the library and am reading through it now.

I'm hoping beyond hope that the outflow boundary from those showers will sink far enough south to give us some of the rain and cooler air, too! I'm so sick of the heat. :(

Oh how I love my compost. I don't know what it is about making soil, but I am in-love with it. My husband did make a tumbler for me, but I mostly use it in the winter cuz it sits right outside the back door and I don't have to walk all the way to the back of our acre. We have 2 pallet bins next to the chicken coop, with a third pile on cardboard next to that. there is a compost forum on here that is pretty funny.
I still have to fine tune the art, because my compost tends to cool off before finishing, and I think I have too much organic matter over dead matter. We produce quite a bit of kitchen waste.
Have fun! Compost is awesome, and you should watch the documentary called "Dirt."
Jammie

Oh how I miss my compost container! Mine is roundish, and gets rolled around daily, when I have it. Presently it lives at my daughters, besides her house. But, yesterday I opened it, to see, if any of my worms are still alive. When I had to move out of my house, I put my outdoor worm bin worms in there, with all the vermicompost that was there.

Surprise, surprise, surprise.... the worms didn't cook yet. I shoveled to kitty litter buckets full in buckets, and brought them home on my balcony.

No longer do I need to haul my compostables to my friend (but of course, she will miss all that) but I can compost right here now.

Yeah!

Stop by Starbucks when ever you get near one, and get their bags of used coffee grounds. Great stuff to add to your bin. And it is FREE!

Moni

I'm sure my own coffee habit will give me plenty of coffee grounds, but if I ever acquire a big pile of browns from somewhere I'll definitely stop by Starbucks and load up on the greens! I am so patrolling Norman for bags of leaves this fall. I need to figure out what a walnut tree looks like before I do, though. I think I might try to grow cover crops for compost, too, if I can get my beds done soon enough this fall.

I love the compost forum here! It's hard not to have a sense of humor about compost given what it's made of. :p